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Why Do People Tell Actors to Break a Leg? (2016x190)

Air date: Sep 14, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why Zippers Have YKK on Them and What Completely Different Colour Carrots Were Before the 1700s https://youtu.be/0tJh0VrKPVc?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why Do Vitamins Make Urine Bright Yellow https://youtu.be/mFebjPEgZ7g?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: The term, of course, means “do well” or “have a great show” and is typically used before a stage performance, a show, or an audition. (I have never heard it used before filming a movie on any of the movies I’ve been involved with, but I guess it can be used in that sense too). But I’m sure you’re more interested in the origin of “break a leg”. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/11/origin-of-the-phrase-break-a-leg/ Sources: